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Q. Were you on night shift, or why were you in the foreman’s
office?
A. My switchboard service started at 6 o’clock at night
and ended at 6 o’clock in the morning.
Q. That is why you were a
witness to the other incident which you described when Gerlach at 4
o’clock in the morning got these female eastern workers out of bed by
pouring cold water on them?
A. Yes.
Q. Was that in the summer
or in the winter?
A. He did that at the time when the plant had been
damaged; as we were to observe the blackout as much as possible, working hours
were to start at 7 o’clock in the morning; but he made them get up at 4
o’clock in the morning. And if they didn’t get up at once he poured
water on them, a whole bucket full.
Q. You said that the working hours
at the time when this incident happened began at 7 o’clock in the morning?
A. Yes.
Q. Whereas previously they started at 6 o’clock?
A. Yes.
Q. May I conclude from that that it was winter?
A. Yes.
Q. Please tell me how you could see into the hut at 4
o’clock in the morning when it was still dark?
A. Well, I
couldn’t exactly look into the huts but we heard, and I saw, how Gerlach
took the bucket of water, carried it into the hut, and shortly after or at the
same moment I heard the screaming in the barracks.
Q. Then it is a
conclusion you draw. Did you hear the water being poured — or from what do
you conclude it?
A. The girls left the hut and said, this one, and that
one, and that one had a bucket of water poured on her because she didn’t
get up.
Q. Then the girls told it to you?
A. Yes. But he
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Q. Did you approve this mistreatment which you witnessed or were you
indignant about it?
A. I certainly did not approve it.
Q. Did
you make any report to anyone about it?
A. No.
Q. Why not?
A. That would have meant my arrest at the very least.
Q. And
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